Definition of prick

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Prick (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse..

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Prick :: Prick (v.) The footprint of a hare.
Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..
Burr :: Burr (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1..
Thrill :: Thrill (v. t.) Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate..
Prighte :: Prighte () imp. of Prick.
Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To prick; to goad; to progue.
Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks..
Acanthaceous :: Acanthaceous (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant..
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..
Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..
Gherkin :: Gherkin (n.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles..
Prickmadam :: Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop..
Glasswort :: Glasswort (n.) A seashore plant of the Spinach family (Salicornia herbacea), with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family (Salsola Kali), both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap..
Point :: Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer..
Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste..
Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..
Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..
Prick :: Prick (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse..
Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..
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